Media Coverage

The tragic events that took place in Charlottesville have spurred numerous debates on race, religion and rights. Meanwhile, a pair of Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences neurosurgeons offered a unique perspective on race from the lens of an operating microscope. Elad I. Levy, MD, MBA, L. Nelson Hopkins III, MD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery, and Adnan H. Siddiqui, MD, PhD, professor and vice chair of neurosurgery, wrote that as brain surgeons, they are reminded daily that color is truly skin deep. As soon as the scalpel scores the skin, all patients look the same.

David Poulsen, PhD, who came to Buffalo two years ago from Montana, is excited about the opportunities on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. "The facilities here are unprecedented. There are more resources in a three-block radius than in the entire state of Montana," says Poulson, professor of neurosurgery and chief science officer at NeuroTrauma Sciences, LLC.

Western New York surgeons often participate in international speaking engagements and conference training, as well as surgeries broadcast live online. L. Nelson Hopkins, MD, SUNY Distinguished Professor of neurosurgery, and Adnan Siddiqui, MD, PhD, professor and vice chair of neurosurgery, have traveled the world, as well as demonstrated their technique for years through live webcasts for professional surgical associations.

An article on advancements and challenges to treating strokes in Western New York includes comments from Elad I. Levy, MD, professor and chairman of neurosurgery, and Adnan Siddiqui, MD, PhD, vice-chairman and professor of neurosurgery, who discussed a new stent retriever that physicians at UB and Kaleida Health played a key role in developing.

Two new studies have found that the use of intravenous thrombolysis with tPA did not enhance outcomes for stroke patients.

Top executives for Toshiba Medical — which has committed $15.8 million for new equipment and support at the Toshiba Stroke and Vascular Research Center — will soon visit Buffalo. L. Nelson Hopkins, MD, SUNY Distinguished Professor of neurosurgery, says the executives will discuss existing collaborations and the potential for future ones. Hopkins is also a professor of radiology and president of the Gates Vascular Institute.

An article about a new incubator program being launched by the Jacobs Institute, which will recruit promising biomedical startups and help them commercialize their inventions, quotes Adnan Siddiqui, MD, PhD, professor and vice chair of neurosurgery.

Commenting on a new study that shows certain practice drills are more dangerous for youth football players, Elad I. Levy, MD, professor and chair of neurosurgery, said research has changed the way we look at injuries from high-impact sports.

Kenneth V. Snyder, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurosurgery, advocates taking breaks — even short ones — to help reduce the stress-level hormones created by juggling a heavy workload.

A report on a collaboration between UB's Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Jacobs Institute and Kaleida Health’s Gates Vascular Institute to use 3D printing to help treat vascular disease, quotes Adnan Siddiqui, MD, PhD, vice chair and professor of neurosurgery.

Parkinson’s disease patients are using boxing to improve their physical and cognitive function.

UB neurosurgeons are partnering with a Toronto medical technology firm on new brain technology to ease the process of removing tumors and brain lesions while also avoiding critical brain areas.

Speaking about methods to improve pre-hospital stroke care, L. Nelson Hopkins, MD, SUNY Distinguished Professor of neurosurgery, said adding comprehensive stroke centers is not the answer.

A story about a treatment for Parkinson’s disease called deep brain stimulation interviews Robert J. Plunkett, MD, associate professor of neurosurgery.